Kestner Wayside Park
Kestner Wayside Park is a small roadside pulloff located between a cornfield and a busy road in Culpeper, VA. It offers a quiet and safe spot for a quick lunch or break during the day, featuring stone picnic tables for small families. The park is wheelchair accessible with parking available for a limited number of vehicles. While it is well-maintained and peaceful, it lacks playgrounds, water fountains, grills, and dedicated dog areas, and is not ideal for children or off-leash dog activities due to proximity to traffic. It is suitable for older visitors seeking a quiet resting place.
Reviews
Good place to pull off and eat your drive-thru meal without spilling it on your lap trying to drive and eat at the same time!
Nice roadside pulloff park. Good,safe location to meet friends for a quick lunch during work day. If you need to get out of the office and just have a moment…perfect spot.
It’s a pull off set between a cornfield and a four lane road. It serves the purpose as a place to stop and stretch, but there’s no bathroom or playground. It’s a fine wayside stop, but calling it a park is a stretch.
This is a tiny little “park-like” setting. There are stone picnic tables in two spots for two separate small families to have a picnic but not a large one. There are no grills, there is no parking for more than one vehicle at each spot. The Culpeper Garden Club has a few beautiful memorial bushes there for Fallen Armed Forces members and there is a tiny stone monument for Mr. Kestner. There is no playground, there is no water fountain, this is not a place to bring children. This is not a place to have a quiet lunch as the road is right there and as everyone knows road traffic is quite noisy. This is also very unsafe area for dogs because if they walk more than 5 feet from the tables they will get run over by cars. It is very well maintained other than the road, and the trash can. I would suggest this for older folks who don’t want to hear kids screaming and dogs barking. Because there’s no reason to bring a kid or a dog there. We will be returning.
It would be nice if the city would convert the cornfield into more park-like amenities. Some mulberry trees and gopher holes. Saw many gophers and a deer.